Let us begin with this quote: “ I am therefore addressing this urgent appeal to every Government which may be engaged in hostilities publicly to affirm its determination that its armed forces shall in no event, and under no circumstances, undertake the bombardment from the air of civilian populations or of unfortified cities…” It would probably come as a surprise to most people that this sentiment did not come forth from some anti-war zealot, or some un-American personage, but rather this was stated by none other than President Franklin D. Roosevelt on September 1, 1939. This then should be required knowledge for all those who are American: that there was a time when the United States of America was fully cognizant that the bombardment of civilians and undefended cities was unbecoming of any nation that would consider itself to be humane, civilized, and in adherence to doing the right thing, above all.
Regrettably, not only were these wise words of FDR totally ignored in what became World War II, but apparently American governance doesn’t even question the morality or rightness of bombing civilian targets and unfortified cities, whatsoever, because it has, pretty much as its preference, done that very thing, in war after war after war, since and even during World War II, of which, a primary reason why it does so, is in the misguided belief, that the bombardment of civilians and unfortified cities will get those that are under such a relentless and vicious attack to surrender to America, unconditionally. The reality is that this seldom happens because citizens the world over have an innate resilience that they will continue to do what they need to do to at least maintain what they have till the very end, because doing less will, from their perspective, be even worse for them.
To make it governmental policy that aerial bombardment of civilians is a legitimate means to conduct warfare is to have lost one’s common sense, and is a reflection that morality has taken a back seat to unrestrained violence. Those than that are part and parcel of such bombardment, from the buying and making of such materials all the way to their actual destructive usage, have not only blood on their hands, but in many a case, have done so, because they have determined that some peoples are not fully human for whatever wrongful reason, or they simply must be eradicated because they are a nuisance to that which drives the cause to such bombardment.
To kill and to destroy infrastructure and civilians which represents no true threat to the military purpose is a definite crime against humanity, and while those that perpetuate these very acts may not be held to account during their life here on earth, there most definitely will be an accounting, so made, because no matter how much those in the highest echelons of power, as well as those that are obedient to this construct believe that they are in the right, or that this is necessary, or somehow is justified, we find that they have failed to take into full account, that there will be justice, for true justice will not be mocked and cannot be ignored, so that at some future time and place, there will be a reckoning, and those then that were so callous or uncaring to bomb without fair consideration of what they have done and enacted, will answer, and answer fully via their own personalized cosmic bombardment accomplished in the skeins of time.